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ANAHEIM -- Goaltending prospect John Gibson was among six players the Ducks assigned to their American Hockey League team on Monday as they cut down closer to the 23-man roster.

Gibson was sent to the Norfolk Admirals along with center Joseph Cramarossa, right wing Stefan Noesen, and defensemen Alex Grant, Kyle Cumiskey and Mat Clark.

The Ducks have 35 players remaining in camp and figure to make more cuts after their exhibition against the Kings on Tuesday night at Staples Center.

Gibson, who turned in a strong 30 minutes against Colorado after a rough exhibition debut last week against the Kings, figures to battle for the starting job in Norfolk. The Ducks still have Frederik Andersen and Igor Bobkov in their camp.

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- The Ducks signed center prospect Joseph Cramarossa to a three-year entry level contract on Saturday that will begin with the 2013-14 season.

Cramarossa was taken in the third round of the 2011 draft and has been enjoying his best Ontario Hockey League season with the Belleville Bulls.

In 60 games for Belleville, Cramarossa has 17 goals, 39 assists and a plus-15 rating along with 76 penalty minutes. He had a career-best three goals and five points on Jan. 11 against the Kingston Frontenacs.

ANAHEIM -- The Ducks made their first cuts of training camp Thursday by assigning four players back to their junior teams.

These four will return to the squads in the Ontario Hockey League: goaltenders John Gibson (Kitchener Rangers) and Igor Bobkov (Kingston Frontenacs), right wing Rickard Rakell (Plymouth Whalers) and center Joseph Cramarossa (Mississauga St. Michael's Majors).

The moves leave the Ducks with 43 players on their camp roster heading into three exhibition games over the next three days, beginning with a 7:30 p.m. contest Friday against the San Jose Sharks at HP Pavilion.

Brian Burke once famously said during his time in Anaheim that he looks for the requisite level of "pugnacity, truculence, belligerence, hostility and testosterone" among his bottom six forwards. His successor, Ducks GM Bob Murray, has looked to add more skill over the years but he hasn't forgotten what's in their DNA.

When he speaks of those he goes up against every night, Cramarossa simply says, "I'd like to hope I'm a thorn in their side all game."

"I don't think they like that every shift I'm dumping it, banging and getting in their heads," he continued. "I think it gets them eventually. That's my style and that's what teams need. I think I played my role well with Mississauga this year and it helped us."

ANAHEIM -- Chris Wagner scored four goals to lead the Black team to a come-from-behind 8-6 victory over the White team in an intrasquad scrimmage to open the Ducks' conditioning camp at Anaheim Ice.

A fifth-round pick of the Ducks in 2010, Wagner had nine goals and 10 assists along with 26 penalty minutes in his freshman season at Colgate.

Emerson Etem, a first-round pick of the Ducks in 2010, also scored twice while Devante Smith-Pelly and Brett Perlini each added goals for the Black squad. Smith-Pelly was a second-round choice last year while Perlini, a Michigan State junior, was a seventh-round pick in the same draft.

Perlini, 21, had 18 goals and 12 assists in 38 games with the Spartans last season.

Joseph Cramarossa, a third-round pick this year, sparked the White team with two goals while Andy Welinski, Andreas Dahlstrom, Tim Heed and Radoslav Illo also scored as the scrimmage was played in a four-on-four format with two 25-minute periods.